use /architectures as alias for /deployments

app/app.js

 import Ember from 'ember';
 import EmberData from 'ember-data';
-import Resolver from './resolver';
+import Resolver from './resolver'; // uses ember-route-alias
 import loadInitializers from 'ember-load-initializers';
 import config from './config/environment';
 

app/resolver.js

 import Resolver from 'ember-resolver';
+import RouteAliasResolver from 'ember-route-alias/mixins/route-alias-resolver';
 
-export default Resolver;
+export default Resolver.extend(RouteAliasResolver);

app/router.js

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Router.map(function() {
         });
     });
 
+    this.alias('architectures', '/architectures', 'deployments'); // uses ember-route-alias, inherits nested routes
+
     this.route('not-found', { path: '*path' });
 });
 

app/routes/deployments/single.js

@@ -14,7 +14,10 @@ export default Ember.Route.extend({
      * update whenever new records are pushed into the store.
      * The controller can observe this.
      * Also note that since we changed the behavior of findAll() to use the systemId
-     * Ember will probably also update for other systems. These are filtered in the controller
+     * Ember will probably also update for other systems. These are filtered in the controller.
+     *
+     * We also load all the data, so that the transformation strategies can assume that the whole
+     * meta model is cached. This also allowes that the architecture view is only an alias
      */
     const load = (type) => this.store.findAll(type);
 
@@ -44,7 +47,7 @@ export default Ember.Route.extend({
         * passing object parameters to transitionTo which break with the current path variables.
         * Otherwise this would use transitionTo('deployments.single.details', {...})
         */
-        const url = this.router.generate('deployments.single.details', {
+        const url = this.router.generate(`${this.get('routeName')}.details`, { // use routeName to support architectures alias
             systemId: this.get('session.systemId'),
             entityType,
             entityId

package.json

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
     "ember-load-initializers": "^0.5.0",
     "ember-resolver": "^2.0.3",
     "ember-route-action-helper": "0.3.2",
+    "ember-route-alias": "0.1.4",
     "ember-truth-helpers": "1.2.0",
     "loader.js": "^4.0.0",
     "lodash": "^4.11.1",